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If someone had asked me I'd said it's derogatory, like "you fucking nonce!", but also it's a religious thing (not specifically pedo related ๐) but all I could find was "slang for pedo".
So I doubled down and here is where I went wrong:
The Nonce apostolique is french for Nuncio in English.
So nonce is pedo in English slang, and in french it's a diplomatic representative of the pope.
How appropriate!
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